Sleights
Proper noun
Meaning
Sleights
A village in Eskdaleside cum Ugglebarnby parish, Scarborough district, North Yorkshire, England (OS grid ref NZ8607).
Examples
Jack didn't have the resources or the stomach lining to fight Marvel over copyrights, character ownership or past contractual sleights that he believed he suffered.
It's not that puppets of sharks and a giant squid are doomed to be tacky by default, but the clash is palpable: the play's hefty, universalizing scope can't sustain itself on sleights of hand.
Nahri knows the trades she uses to get by are just tricks and sleights of hand: there’s nothing magical about them.